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Zen Buddhism --- History. --- 294.3*96 --- #GBIB: jesuitica --- 294.3*96 Zen-boeddhisme --- Zen-boeddhisme --- History --- Zen Buddhism - History

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This work provides a survey and critical investigation of the remarkable century that lasted from 1225 to 1325, during which the transformation of the Chinese Chan school of Buddhism into the Japanese Zen sect was successfully completed. The cycle of transfer began with a handful of Japanesepilgrims, including Eisai, Dogen and Enni, who traveled to China in order to discover authentic Buddhism. They quickly learned that Chan, with the strong support of the secular elite, was well organized in terms of the intricate teaching techniques of various temple lineages. After receiving Dharmatransmission through face-to-face meetings with prominent Chinese teachers, the Japanese monks returned home with many spiritual resources. Foreign rituals and customs met with resistance, however, and by the end of the thirteenth century it was difficult to imagine the success Zen would soonachieve. Following the arrival of a series of emigre monks, who gained the strong support of the shoguns for their continental teachings, Zen became the mainstream religious tradition in Japan. The transmission culminated in the 1320s when prominent leaders Daito and Muso learned enough Chinese toovercome challenges from other sects with their Zen methods. The book examines the transcultural conundrum: How did this school of Buddhism, which started half a millennium earlier as a mystical utopian cult for reclusive monks, gain a broad following among influential lay followers in both China and Japan? It answers this question by a focusing on themythical elements that contributed to the effectiveness of this transition, especially the Legend of Living Buddhas.

Zen Buddhism --- History --- S13A/0320 --- J1880 --- J1800.40 --- China: Religion--Chinese Buddhism: Chan Buddhism (incl. texts) --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- Zen --- Japan: Religion -- Buddhism -- history -- Kamakura period, Yoshino (1185-1392) and Chūsei in general (1185-1600) --- History. --- Zen Buddhism - History.

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S35/1026 --- Zen Buddhism --- -#SML: Joseph Spae --- Chʻan Buddhism --- Dhyāna (Sect) --- Zen --- Zen (Sect) --- Buddhism --- Mahayana Buddhism --- Japan--Buddhist sects: Zen --- History --- #GBIB: jesuitica --- 294.3*96 --- 294.3*96 Zen-boeddhisme --- Zen-boeddhisme --- #SML: Joseph Spae --- History. --- Zen Buddhism - History

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Chan Buddhism--better known as 'Zen'--produced an enormous amount of literature, and yet many Chan advocates, medieval and modern, insist that Chan and its truths can be found in neither language nor literature. Patriarchs on Paper explores this paradox by considering several genres of Chan literature that appeared during the Tang and Song dynasties (c. 600-1300), including genealogies, biographies, dialogues, poems, monastic handbooks, and koans. Looking carefully at this body of literature, Alan Cole shows how Chan authors gradually constructed, in ever more artful portrayals, images of the perfectly simple masters of the past, best known for their freedom from literature and cultural norms. Patriarchs on Paper explores how this kind of 'fantasy Buddhism' interacted with its more traditional Chinese forms and in so doing sheds new light on how Chan's illustrious ancestors were created in literature to satisfy a wide range of agendas.

Zen literature, Chinese --- Zen Buddhism --- Chinese Zen literature --- Chinese literature --- Chʻan Buddhism --- Dhyāna (Sect) --- Zen --- Zen (Sect) --- Buddhism --- Mahayana Buddhism --- History and criticism. --- History of doctrines --- Zen literature, Chinese - China - History and criticism. --- Zen Buddhism - History of doctrines - Middle Ages, 600-1500. --- buddha. --- buddhism. --- chan buddhism. --- chan literature. --- chan. --- chinese buddhism. --- cultural studies. --- eastern culture. --- fantasy buddhism. --- final truth. --- huineng. --- institutional solidarity. --- jingjue. --- koans. --- literary tradition. --- medieval writers. --- modern writers. --- monastic handbooks. --- monastic system. --- perfect buddhism. --- poems. --- pure spirit. --- religion. --- religious doctrines. --- religious history. --- religious literature. --- religious studies. --- shenhui. --- song dynasty. --- spiritual. --- tang dynasty. --- zen philosophy. --- zen.